Improvement in combined cigar cutters and holders



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Combined Cigar-Gutter and Holder.

N0.134,030. Patented Dec. 17, 1872.

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UNITED. STATES PATENT CFFIC'E.

JAMES BRADY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED CIGAR CUTTERS AND HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,030, dated December 17, 1872.

ment of parts in one and the same article or device whereby I am enabled to produce a very convenient and useful contrivance, that may be carried by a smoker in his pocket, and be used by him, as required, either for cutting ofi more or less of the head of a cigar to facilitate the draft through and smoking of the latter, or which may be used as a holder for the cigar in the mouth after it has had its head thus pared off by the instrument.

Figure 1 represents a side view of the article as it appears when being used for cutting ofi' the end of the cigar, Fig. 2, a similar view of the same device when used as a holder for the cigar; Fig. 3, an edge view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a cutting-blade, pivoted at b, for operation within a two-sided secondary blade or handle, B, having a circular opening, 0, through it, in which the head of the cigar is inserted for bisection by the cutting-blade A as the two blades are closed, after the manner of a pair of shears; each blade being provided with a loop, d, to give a finger or working hold of the blades, and the whole so far resembling a certain cigar-cutter already in use. To the outer end of theblade B is provided, at e, a bifurcated cigar-holding attachment, 0, arranged to close within the'two sides of said blade so as to be out of the way when theinstrument is being carriedin the pocketand under other circumstances; but which, on projecting the finger-nail into either one of two ed ge-notches, s, in the blade B, may be readily swung out from between the sides of said blade, and be extended in line with the blade,

as represented in Figs. 2 and 3, for the purpose of receiving and holding the cigar, while being smoked, between the prongs or bifurcated portions of the attachment.

The arrangement of parts as described makes of the one instrument or article a most convenient device, which can be readily carried in the pocket, and which provides alike for preparing the cigar to smoke clear or well, and for holding it during the act of smoking.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the pivoted bifurcated cigar-holdin g attachment 0 with the perforated blade B of the cutter and cutting-blade A, substantially as shown and described.

JAMES BRADY.

Witnesses:

MICHAEL RYAN, FRED. HAYNES. 

